Updates
A few miscellaneous updates: I'm not going to NASFiC. Many thanks to all who volunteered to help out with a...
From the adorable to the sublime
And if those kittens should be too cute, Papa's gonna buy you Ahem. Let me try that again: Rowan pointed...
Items: The kittens of August
Okay, so they're the kittens of September now. Whatever. Those cat photos led me inevitably to kitten photos. Some of...
Items: cats and sinks and stuff on heads
Amid all the bad news, it's worth occasionally stopping to look at silly pictures of cats. You might start, for...
RIP, Kepler’s bookstore
Kepler's, an independent bookstore in Menlo Park that celebrated its 50th anniversary this past May, abruptly went out of business...
HB
In much better news: happy birthday to Chaos and Jenn!...
More New Orleans
In case anyone hasn't been following the news today: Good news is that Katrina moved slightly east and became slightly...
New Orleans
In case anyone hasn't heard, they're evacuating New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina's approach. Jim M passed along a warning...
The cold catches up
I've been teetering on the brink of a cold (probably the same one everyone else has had) for a little...
Fat characters
I'm always a little annoyed by physical appearance denoting evil in submitted stories. But most authors these days understand that...
Quasi-annual Salon update
I have a certain vested interest in the question of whether an online publication (other than the Wall Street Journal's...
Busy and digressive
My old friend Stephanie B is in town, and Kam just left for Burning Man (this is beginning to sound...